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Does green travel offset emissions.... or just your guilt?

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Heidi Siegelbaum
Apr 10, 2008
Travel to an eco-resort abroad and mitigate guilt over the GHG emissions used to get there all at the same time! Ah, the confusing lexicon of...
Posted In: certifications, ecotourism, green travel, sustainable tourism
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Climate-friendly investing... with nuclear?

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Janne K. Flisrand
Mar 2, 2008
As I've been trying to be green in my investments (and mostly failing), this morning's Marketplace Money story by Sarah Gardner felt very familiar....
Posted In: nuclear power
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Biofuels' virgin flight an important step

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Dennis Markatos
Feb 27, 2008
As the price of oil passes $100/barrel, motorists aren’t the only ones that suffer. So does the airline industry, which has relied on cheap fuel...
Posted In: airplane travel, biofuels
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Burt's Bees takes on cosmetics

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Heidi Siegelbaum
Feb 7, 2008
The Burt's Bees new ad campaign, fashioned by Pool advertising in New York, raises some magnificently sexy issues that are better than a dog-eared...
Posted In: Burt's Bees, Clorox, cosmetics
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Does U.S. oil boom mean lower prices at the pump?

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Sarah Gardner
May 14, 2013
America's closer to energy independence, but the days of $2 gas are history.
Posted In: energy, Oil
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Green power vs. green power

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Emma Jacobs
Mar 6, 2012
Canadian hydroelectric projects could threaten domestic green energy start-ups.
Posted In: Canada, hydroelectric power, Environment, green
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The sound of the future

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Adriene Hill
Feb 10, 2012
Quiet electric cars have to sound like something. So what should that be?
Posted In: electric cars
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Better, faster, more efficient -- and gas-powered

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Sarah Gardner
Nov 10, 2011
Automakers look in a new direction for increased mileage: The good ole gas engine.
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A tax on soda

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Raj Patel
Sep 22, 2011
Millions of dollars will be spent on diseases related to obesity. So, how do we confront the public health problem?
Posted In: soda, tax
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Increasing gas mileage by 'hypermiling'

Sep 13, 2011
Test-driving "hypermiling," a way of increasing gas mileage by using specific techniques in driving. It could help ease the burden at the pump.

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Three life rules from Donald Rumsfeld

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Three life rules from Donald Rumsfeld

Donald Rumsfeld's interview on Marketplace today was absolutely unbelievable. Really. Is one of his rules not to believe your own spin? I...

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Three life rules from Donald Rumsfeld

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How World Finance makes a killing lending on the installment (loan) plan

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